When the Arab revolts that were sweeping the region and toppling autocrats like dominoes reached Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s days at the helm looked numbered. Ten years on however, he has defied the odds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time of hope and fear for Syrians ...

Fifteen years after the "Arab Spring", what were the accomplishments in the countries where it erupted but chaos, division and years of nothing? The "Arab Spring" swept Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, ...

Behind the scenes of the Arab Spring, Shiite-led Iran and Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia have been jockeying for influence in the region--a fact on display in the Iranian state media's coverage of the ...

The day after Henry Hamra learned that Islamist rebels had ousted Bashar Assad from power — ending more than six decades of Ba’athist rule over Syria — he was on the phone with his friend Mouaz ...

A delegation of American diplomats arrived in Syria to meet with representatives of several Syrian factions, including a rebel group designated as terrorists — who overthrew the country’s longtime ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) The fall of Bashar ...